Daniel Edmonds said the journey of faith is often tough and brings fear, but we’re encouraged by our walk with Christ. “We abide in Him and obey Him, so it begins and continues with prayer,” he said. Edmonds, director of the Office of Sunday School & Discipleship for the Alabama...

Daniel Edmonds said over the years as he’s visited with churches, when they ask how to get a disciple-making movement started, he says this: “Start small. Do it right. Build it strong.” “It’s been a driving idea in my life,” said Edmonds, director of the office of Sunday School and...

Mark 3:13-14 (ESV) contains the Be With Me invitation: “And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them...

Mark 1:17 contains this invitation: “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men” (ESV).  Jesus’ invitation is to be extended by those who seek to imitate Him by making disciples of all nations until He returns. His invitation extends beyond making disciples to transforming disciples into disciple-makers....

Those of us who claim the name of Christ must choose again and again between two very distinct courses.

John 15 contains the invitation to abide in Jesus. This invitation is the starting point for a disciple-making movement. A disciple is one who abides in Christ and bears fruit that will remain. Apart from the Vine, a branch is capable of nothing; it withers and is thrown in the...